Today, according to Vladivostok-based travel agency Vostok Intur and a tourist map seen by NK News (an American outlet ...

North Korea is set to open a long-awaited beachfront "tourist city" later this year as the "first big step" to developing the country's tourism industry.

The project, called the "North Korean Benidorm" by analogy with the famous Spanish resort, offers clean beaches, 'luxury hotels' and a variety of entertainment 'comparable to the best world resorts'.

For several years, North Korea has been building luxury hotels and recreational facilities in Wonsan-Kalma in an attempt to attract more international visitors. But the beach resort project had ...

Kim ordered the beach resort be constructed in 2017 after ... But even before Covid, only up to 200,000 foreign tourists visited North Korea a year. Kim last visited the resort in July - his ...